National States' Rights Party

The National States' Rights Party (NSRP) was a white nationalist and neo-fascist political party in the United States which existed from 1958 to 1987. It was founded in Knoxville, Tennessee by Edward Reed Fields, and it argued for states' rights against the advance of the Civil Rights movement and organized relations with the Ku Klux Klan. In 1960, their presidential candidate Orval Faubus won .07% of the vote (and 6.76% in his native Arkansas); in 1964, their candidate John Kasper won just .01% of the vote. The party declined in the 1970s as Fields devoted much of his attention to the Klan instead, and he was expelled in 1983 for spending too much time with the Klan. In 1987, the party dissolved.